Claire Strom has written about Pete Daniel's Curating the American Past: A Memoir of a Quarter Century at the Smithsonian National Museum of...
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Guy Lancaster talks about American Atrocity on the New Books Network
Brandon T. Jett has interviewed Guy Lancaster on the New Books Network podcast. Lynching is often viewed as a narrow form of violence: either the...
Man on a Mission: James Meredith and the Battle of Ole Miss is Now Available
Man on a Mission: James Meredith and the Battle of Ole Miss is now available. In 1962, James Meredith famously desegregated the University of...
The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas Reviewed in the Journal of Southern History
Barclay Key has reviewed Kenneth Barnes's The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas: How Protestant White Nationalism Came to Rule a State in the April...
Pete Daniel’s “Legacies and Lunch” Book Talk
In Curating the American Past, Pete Daniel reveals how curators collect objects, plan exhibits, and bring alive the country’s complex and exciting...
Interviews with John Kirk, author of new Winthrop Rockefeller Biography
John Kirk, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s George W. Donaghey Distinguished Professor of History, examines the first 44 years of...
Now Available! Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas
Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas by Terry Anne Scott is now available. In Lynching and Leisure, Terry Anne...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Containing Multitudes
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of the two-volume electronic textbook Containing Multitudes: A...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Man on a Mission
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Man on a Mission: James Meredith and the Battle of Ole Miss....
Now Available: Jerome and Rohwer
Jerome and Rohwer: Memories of Japanese American Internment in World War II Arkansas, is now available. “This volume presents an intimate view of...
Now Available! Curating the American Past
Curating the American Past: A Memoir of a Quarter Century at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History by Pete Daniel, is now available!...
The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas reviewed in the Missouri Historical Review
Sean Rost has reviewed The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas: How Protestant White Nationalism Came to Rule a State by Kenneth C. Barnes in the current...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta: Essays to Mark the...
Guy Lancaster on Ozarks at Large
Jacqueline Froelich interviews Guy Lancaster on Ozarks at Large about lynching, justice, and Lancaster's new book American Atrocity: The Types of...
Now Available: American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching by Guy Lancaster
Lynching is often viewed as a narrow form of violence: either the spontaneous act of an angry mob against accused individuals, or a demonstration of...
Now Available! The Provisions of War: Expanding the Boundaries of Food and Conflict, 1840–1990
The Provisions of War: Expanding the Boundaries of Food and Conflict, 1840–1990, edited by Justin Nordstrom, is now available. The Provisions of War...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob...
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of New Winthrop Rockefeller Biography
The University of Arkansas Press is excited to announce the forthcoming publication of Winthrop Rockefeller: From New Yorker to Arkansawyer,...
To Feast on Us as Their Prey reviewed in the Journal of American History
To Feast on Us as Their Prey: Cannibalism and the Early Modern Atlantic, edited by Rachel B. Herrmann was reviewed in the March 2021 issue of the...
Fugitivism Reviewed in the Journal of American History
The Journal of American History reviewed S. Charles Bolton's Fugitivism: Escaping Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1820–1860 in their March...
Now Available! Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps
Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965 by Cherisse Jones-Branch is now available! The first...